Orla Murphy is from Cork, attended Immaculate Heart Secondary School in Ballyphehane (now Presentation Secondary School) and University College Cork where after a BA in English and Philosophy, with particular emphases on feminism, aesthetics and medieval culture, she completed a Higher Diploma funded by the European Science Foundation in Accounting and Information Systems, where she encountered programming for the first time. Coming back to the English Department she completed an interdisciplinary higher diploma in medieval studies leading to an MPhil on “Liturgical Event and Homiletic Response in Aelfric’s First and Second Series Homilies on the Nativity”, sparking an interest in acts of reading, writing and performativity in a range of media. Her PhD as part of the Foundations of Irish Culture Project, brought all the elements of her previous research together, evaluating 3D laser scanning in rereading early medieval inscriptions in Munster.

Orla is a lecturer in the Discipline of Digital Arts and Humanities in the School of English at University College Cork Ireland. She researches and teaches in the Digital Arts and Humanities Program at UCC and in the national, inter-institutional DAH PhD program in Ireland. She was awarded an inaugural Fulbright TechImpact Scholar award for 2014-2015. Named a Digital Champion at UCC in 2013 she now chairs the E-Learning strategy sub committee of the university's Academic Council.

She is chair of the Information Visualisation working group in the NeDiMAH.eu initiative (the European network for digital methods in the arts and humanities) with Fredrik Palm of the HumLAB, Umea U, Sweden, and vice-chair of the Algorithms group in the EU CoST Action Colour and Space in Cultural Heritage where she convenes the successful international Think Tank series for Early Stage Researchers.

Co-coordinator of the MA in Digital Arts and Humanities and the online MA program in Digital Cultures, she is also the Director of the innovative BA in Digital Humanities and Information Technology at UCC a transdisciplinary BA program working with colleagues in Computer Science over a 4 year program cycle, the first of its kind in Ireland.

She is interested in how culture is, was and will be communicated in all its forms including 3D representation, and in how we read, represent and share knowledge in new networked, virtual environments.

Exploring the integration of emerging digital technologies (with)in the humanities

Knowledge Technologies: Representation and Remediation

Digitising cultural heritage material in a variety of forms in order to create (amongst other outcomes) reusable learning objects that are malleable across many platforms and of interest to a wide range of participants

Laser Scanning of Cultural Heritage

Anglo-Saxon language and culture; insular art and culture; movement of ideas from the Mediterranean world in the early medieval period; epigraphy; palaeography; codicology; textual transmission from orality to cyberculture

'Proceedings of the Colour and Space in Cultural Heritage session at the Denkmäler 3D Conference titled From low-cost to high-tech. 3D-Documentation in Archaeology & Monument Preservation' Various (2014) 'Proceedings of the Colour and Space in Cultural Heritage session at the Denkmäler 3D Conference titled From low-cost to high-tech. 3D-Documentation in Archaeology & Monument Preservation'. 1 (1) [Details]

(2011)

'Aigne - International Peer Reviewed Journal of the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences at University College Cork' Various; (2011) 'Aigne - International Peer Reviewed Journal of the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences at University College Cork'. [Details]

EDULEARN 10 International Conference on Education, Technology and Research Murphy, Orla; (2010) Blogs and Wikis: Enhancing Undergraduate Communication and Critical ability in an E-Learning Context EDULEARN 10 International Conference on Education, Technology and Research Barcelona, , 04-JUL-10 - 07-JUL-10 [DOI][Details]

(2009)

International Technology, Education and Development Conference Murphy, Orla; Griffin, Carrie; (2009) Heroes, Text and Hypertext; Teaching and theorising textual transmission from the Middle Ages to the digital classroom International Technology, Education and Development Conference[Details]

Armagh. Composite Cross. South Side. Lower and Upper fragments. ( Also known as The Market Cross). Orla Murphy; (2002) Armagh. Composite Cross. South Side. Lower and Upper fragments. ( Also known as The Market Cross). University College Cork, Ireland: Catalog [Details]

Carndonagh. Ringless Cross. Close up of the Crucifixion and the three women going to the tomb of Jesus. Orla Murphy; (2002) Carndonagh. Ringless Cross. Close up of the Crucifixion and the three women going to the tomb of Jesus. University College Cork, Ireland: Catalog [Details]

(2002)

Carndonagh. Ringless Cross. Close up of the three women going to the tomb of Jesus. Orla Murphy; (2002) Carndonagh. Ringless Cross. Close up of the three women going to the tomb of Jesus. University College Cork, Ireland: Catalog [Details]

(2002)

Carndonagh. Ringless Cross. Close up of the Head of the Cross. Orla Murphy; (2002) Carndonagh. Ringless Cross. Close up of the Head of the Cross. University College Cork, Ireland: Catalog [Details]

Clones. Composite Cross. North West Face. General View of Shaft. Orla Murphy; (2002) Clones. Composite Cross. North West Face. General View of Shaft. University College Cork, Ireland: Catalog [Details]

Clones. Composite Cross. South East Face. General View of Shaft. Orla Murphy; (2002) Clones. Composite Cross. South East Face. General View of Shaft. University College Cork, Ireland: Catalog [Details]

Clonmacnois. Detailed view of two panels. Cross of the Scriptures. East Face. Orla Murphy; (2002) Clonmacnois. Detailed view of two panels. Cross of the Scriptures. East Face. University College Cork, Ireland: Catalog [Details]

Downpatrick. North and South Crosses. General View of Shaft. Orla Murphy; (2002) Downpatrick. North and South Crosses. General View of Shaft. University College Cork, Ireland: Catalog [Details]

(2002)

Downpatrick. Cross Head and Shaft Mounted outside the cathedral. East Face. General View of Shaft. Orla Murphy; (2002) Downpatrick. Cross Head and Shaft Mounted outside the cathedral. East Face. General View of Shaft. University College Cork, Ireland: Catalog [Details]

(2002)

Drumcliff. General View of Cross. South Side. Orla Murphy; (2002) Drumcliff. General View of Cross. South Side. University College Cork, Ireland: Catalog [Details]

(2002)

Drumcliff. Detailed View of Cross Head. End of Cross Arm. South Side. Orla Murphy; (2002) Drumcliff. Detailed View of Cross Head. End of Cross Arm. South Side. University College Cork, Ireland: Catalog [Details]

(2002)

Drumcliff. Detailed View of East Face of Cross Head and End of Cross Arm, South Side. Orla Murphy; (2002) Drumcliff. Detailed View of East Face of Cross Head and End of Cross Arm, South Side. University College Cork, Ireland: Catalog [Details]

Duleek. General View of Cross Head. South Cross. West Face. Orla Murphy; (2002) Duleek. General View of Cross Head. South Cross. West Face. University College Cork, Ireland: Catalog [Details]

(2002)

Duleek. General View of Cross Shaft. North Cross. East Face. Orla Murphy; (2002) Duleek. General View of Cross Shaft. North Cross. East Face. University College Cork, Ireland: Catalog [Details]

(2002)

Duleek. General View of Cross Shaft. North Cross. West Face and North Side. Orla Murphy; (2002) Duleek. General View of Cross Shaft. North Cross. West Face and North Side. University College Cork, Ireland: Catalog [Details]

(2002)

Duleek. North Cross. North Side. Close up of panel at end of cross arm. Orla Murphy; (2002) Duleek. North Cross. North Side. Close up of panel at end of cross arm. University College Cork, Ireland: Catalog [Details]

(2002)

Duleek. General View of Cross Shaft. North Cross. West Face. Orla Murphy; (2002) Duleek. General View of Cross Shaft. North Cross. West Face. University College Cork, Ireland: Catalog [Details]

(2002)

Duleek. Close Up View of Cross Head. North Cross. West Face. Orla Murphy; (2002) Duleek. Close Up View of Cross Head. North Cross. West Face. University College Cork, Ireland: Catalog [Details]

School of English Seminar Series, Orla Murphy (2015) Transitions and Becomings: Holding on to Meaning in Virtual Worlds. [Oral Presentation], School of English Seminar Series, O'Rahilly Building, University College Cork . [Details]

New Histories of the Book, Orla Murphy; (2010) The Impact of New Technologies on Textual Transmission. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], New Histories of the Book, University College COrk , 23-MAR-10 - 23-MAR-10. [Details]

School of English Research Seminar, Orla Murphy; (2009) E-Scholarship - The Future of the Humanities. [Oral Presentation], School of English Research Seminar, University College Cork , 21-OCT-09 - 21-OCT-09. [Details]

Making Books Shaping Readers International Conference, Murphy, Orla; (2007) Shining a light into dark age corners: using laser technology to illuminate early texts. [Oral Presentation], Making Books Shaping Readers International Conference, University College Cork, Ireland , 20-APR-07 - 20-APR-07. [Details]

(2006)

New Voices in Early Medieval Sculpture International Conference, Murphy. Orla; (2006) Handheld Laser Profilometry: The Hiberno-Romanesque Arch at Monaincha, Co. Tipperary. [Oral Presentation], New Voices in Early Medieval Sculpture International Conference, University of York , 09-DEC-06 - 09-DEC-06. [Details]

Consultant to BBC Coast documentary series on early writing and stone inscriptions in Munster. I met with the producer at the programme planning stage to discuss aspects of writing as a new technology in medieval munster on stone.

Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture - Laser Scanning in Cornwall

On the use of laser scanning as an appropriate methodology for recording previously inaccessible sculpture in Cornwall for the ‘Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture’ project led by Prof. Rosemary Cramp.

I teach topics from the earliest literatures in English to the consideration of digital textualities and new modes of textual production in contemporary culture, knowledge technologies and remediation.